Word: skit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ribs Army red tape, imagining Paul Revere, under present-day methods, trying to get a horse; it ribs the housing setup for veterans ("I can put you on the waiting list for a cave"). In its funniest skit, it offers an infantryman's conception of life in the Air Forces-toast after toast in champagne to "the Blue Lady of the clouds," love-maddened women, tony chatter, youths who moan: "Look at me, 22 years old and still only a major!" And one of its liveliest ditties spoofs the Army as a character builder...
...Shirley-Savoy Hotel ballroom, Barbara & friends watched with a professional air as sister delegates demonstrated good manners. Everyone enjoyed most the skits showing horrible examples (see cut). The skit which got the loudest applause: "Monopolizing the Telephone while the Rest of the Family Wait...
...chile. He spent an hour at a cocktail party thrown by Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr., his naval aide and nominee for the Federal Reserve Board. At week's end he dined at the Statler with the White House Correspondents' Association, and laughed good-naturedly at a skit parodying the tune: I'm Just Wild About Harry...
...most famous scat skit is Melody in 4-F, the gaga saga of a G.I. which made the musicomedy Let's Face It famous. In this, while triple-tonguing his "de-geet gat giddle," Kaye mimicked an inductee pleading for deferment because of bad ears, flat feet, ulcers, decayed teeth; took him into training with a few key words like "Shad-ap!" (indicating a tough top sergeant) or "hut, tut, t'ree, fo" (for long marches). But mostly it was all "riddle-de biddle, de reep...
Gridiron merrymaking follows a peculiarly American pattern. Nowhere else could so many watch the faces of a President, his Cabinet and Supreme Court Justices taking lampoonery aimed right between their eyes. In one satiric skit, Gridironers ribbed U.S. foreign policy aboard "The Acheson, the Clayton & the James F. Byrnes." In another, "General MacArthur" sang...